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WebPreferences
Motion Web Preferences The following settings are web preferences of the Motion web. These preferences overwrite the site level preferences in ., and can be overw...
SoundAudioRecording
Recording sound / audio from Webcam Microphone. Introduction This might be simple to some people, and better ways probably exists, but to get started for beginne...
WebHome
Welcome to the former home of Motion, a software motion detector. NOTE. I have handed over the project to a new team of developers. New project owner is Mr Dave...
MotionGuideAlphabeticalOptionReferenceManual
Motion Guide Alphabetical Option Reference Manual Note that this Motion Guide is no longer maintained on this site. Motion is now maintained by Mr. Dave and loc...
MotionGuide
Motion Guide Version 4.0.1 and newer Note that this Motion Guide is no longer maintained on this site. Motion is now maintained by Mr. Dave and located on Github...
ConfigOptionViewTemplate
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WebInterfaceForMotionDiscussion
Web Interface For Motion Discussion. The Initial Vision by Main.KennethLavrsen It is amazing today how Motion rich with features as it is is still able to ...
WebcamCompressInMemory
WebcamCompressInMemory Introduction Every time someone is using a browser to see a webcam motion writes to disk each frame captured from a device (v4l or network...
r10 - 12 Dec 2017 - 09:17 by NickiAllen
MotionMail
Motionmail Creates a montage of event images and sends it by email. Introduction Perl script which will send a montage of event images to a list of email address...
r8 - 12 Dec 2017 - 09:16 by NickiAllen
AreaDetect
Area Detect Feature Description of Patch This patch adds the ability to detect motion in predefined areas and execute an event immediately upon detection. The ev...
r11 - 09 Oct 2017 - 19:02 by RaC
TrendNet
Manufacturer of OEMed network device and IP camera hardware. http://www.trendnet.com/ Trendnet TV IP100 http://www.trendnet.com/products/TV IP100.htm Wired Ether...
r13 - 13 Sep 2017 - 20:58 by SteveMatscherz
IPv6
IPv6 Support Description of Patch This patch adds support for IPv6 to Motion. The 'local' options, which before bound on localhost, now will bind on the appropri...
r13 - 31 Aug 2017 - 05:32 by AlfinSyuqra
MotionStreamAuthPatch
Motion Stream Authentication Patch Description of Patch This patch add authentication support to the "Live Stream Server" function. It contains two authenticatio...
r25 - 31 Aug 2017 - 03:29 by AlfinSyuqra
FI8910W
Main.JackAllen 26 Aug 2017
NEW - 26 Aug 2017 - 18:06 by JackAllen
FeatureRequest2016x03x24x105354
Feature Request: Description Hi guys, I have problems with motion and I need the help. As the IP camera I have ASUS rt n16 router. I have established open sourc...
r2 - 09 Aug 2017 - 00:23 by AndikaJuniar
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SupportQuestion2017x06x22x202557
Question Does anybody know how to make motion only take a picture of a motion that is detected in the specified area_detect zone? Thank you for the help. Roman Pa...
NEW - 22 Jun 2017 - 20:45 by RomanR
SupportQuestion2017x05x21x225901
Question We are looking to get images from our camera through RTSP. In our config file, we entered the rtsp address: rtsp://admin:123456@192.168.137.110/live/ch0 ...
NEW - 21 May 2017 - 23:14 by JohnLaboe
MR1803E
Main.BartoszMarek 20 May 2017 cap.driver: "uvcvideo"cap.card: "USB2.0 PC CAMERA"cap.bus_info: "usb 0000:00:14.0 1"cap.capabilities=0x84200001 1:ml1 NTC VID ...
NEW - 20 May 2017 - 17:26 by BartoszMarek
WorkingDevices
Working Devices If you add an entry for a Network camera, please provide the URL that is required for motion to access the camera images. If the camera supports b...
r203 - 20 May 2017 - 17:22 by BartoszMarek
MotionLog
Motion Logging Description Motion uses syslog for logging messages, but also stderr when it runs in no deamon mode. Only running motion in no damon mode allows t...
r17 - 08 May 2017 - 02:05 by ArifUsr
SupportQuestion2017x03x30x200844
Question Hi there. I am trying to record audio at the same time as video, based on when motion is detected. I have tried using arecord, as listed elsewhere in thi...
NEW - 30 Mar 2017 - 20:32 by JoPitts
SupportQuestion2017x03x23x131350
Question Hello ! I am trying to use a motion with a ComOnyx CO L221 camera. On official site in support is written: The correct spelling of the request for JPEG f...
NEW - 23 Mar 2017 - 13:36 by RamilMukhtarov
SupportQuestion2017x03x21x080028
Question motion.conf on thread1.conf: videodevice /dev/video0 text_left CAMERA 1 target_dir /home/pi/webcam/camera1 stream_port 9061 stream_auth_method 1 stream_...
NEW - 21 Mar 2017 - 08:17 by SuburSubekti
SupportQuestion2017x03x17x072122
Question Hi. I have been trying to get a single JPEG image from running motion, but I only get MJPEG. Is there a HTTP call with what I could ask just for a snapsh...
NEW - 17 Mar 2017 - 07:24 by JermyHollew32332
FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Frequently Asked Questions about Motion How do I get Motion to work with two or more camera at a time? If I run with one camera Motion works but when I add one m...
r85 - 22 Feb 2017 - 14:49 by RodolfoLeibner
SupportQuestion2017x02x20x160943
Question Hello, I plugged in a webcam (sudo lsusb) "Logitech, Inc. Quickcam E2500 series" on my Rapsberry PI3. It works correctly with motion v3.2.12, but the web...
NEW - 20 Feb 2017 - 16:22 by NicoMesa
MotionDailyVideo
Main.RodolfoLeibner 18 Feb 2017 As a Motion software user, I prefer to get a big movie per day rather than a lot of small ones. Although it is always possible to...
r4 - 19 Feb 2017 - 23:29 by RodolfoLeibner
SupportQuestion2017x01x27x203854
Question Hi, my ipcam strams the video with rtsp. VLC is playing the stream without problems when i enter the url: rtsp://192.168.1.43:554/11 in motion.conf i ent...
NEW - 27 Jan 2017 - 21:08 by HennerK
SupportQuestion2017x01x25x185146
Question Hi, First thanks for your app, it's very performant and customizable! My problem is that the video produced after a motion detection is not "correct". I ...
NEW - 25 Jan 2017 - 19:07 by FloD
SupportQuestion2017x01x24x210839
Question Hello everybody, thanks in advance for your help. Please be patient with me i am not good at linux and not experienced with raspi either :( here is my qu...
NEW - 24 Jan 2017 - 21:38 by ThaninSchultheis
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Main.MarioAlbuja2 19 Jan 2017 Tested with: netcam_url http://xx.xx.xx.xx/snapshot.cgi (for single JPEG images) netcam_url http://xx.xx.xx.xx/videostream.cgi (f...
NEW - 19 Jan 2017 - 22:00 by MarioAlbuja2
SupportQuestion2017x01x10x085248
Question I have been running a remote webcam for a number of years. I have been having problems with Logitech cameras locking up to give a gray screen. I have b...
NEW - 10 Jan 2017 - 08:58 by DazzConway
SupportQuestion2017x01x02x173706
Question i am trying to find the http access logs for the motion webserver. where can they be found? Environment Motion version: 3.2.12 ffmpeg versio...
NEW - 02 Jan 2017 - 17:42 by RobertPellegrini
SupportQuestion2016x11x15x081032
Question hi, is possible to manage multiple ipcam? is like the solution for usb? (motion.conf motion2.conf). Thanks Environment Motion version: 4 ff...
NEW - 15 Nov 2016 - 08:34 by RaffaeleDebbi
SupportQuestion2016x11x14x195716
Question I don't have ffmpeg installed on my raspbian OS, because it does not seem to be used in debian anymore. The fork 'libav tools' is available though. I wou...
NEW - 14 Nov 2016 - 20:30 by RicardoBirwe
ConfigFileOptions
Config File Options Version 4.0.1: The configuration options that are applicable to 4.0.1 can be viewed on line alphabetically or by topic. This file is also i...
DownloadFiles
Downloads Motion is published under the GNU Public License version 2 or later. Current version is 4.0.1 * Release Files (Debs and Source) releases Old...
FeatureRequests
Feature Requests from Users This page illustrates some of the historic feature requests for the Motion application. Any new feature requests should be discussed v...
BugReports
Bug Reports The page includes historic bug reports. It is not to be used for reporting any new bugs. New issues should be reported via the github home or reported...
SupportRequests
Motion Support The Motion Wiki Support pages are here for you if you have a technical question or any question about the use of Motion. Motion is free software an...
SupportQuestion2016x11x11x050932
Question I wanna save pictures just around locate positions. Environment Motion version: 3.2.12 ffmpeg version: Libraries: ffmpeg, mysql, pos...
NEW - 11 Nov 2016 - 05:13 by YushinSuzuki
BlueCherry
Bluecherry /bluecherry.jpg Website http://www.bluecherry.net Curtis Hall has kindly offered 15% to users of Motion (and Zoneminder) on video capture cards. To obt...
r8 - 16 Oct 2016 - 19:22 by QwQw
SupportQuestion2016x10x01x180650
Question I have a problem to run motion with logitech c270. I've got 2 errors in logfile: mjpegtoyuv420p: Corrupt image ... continue and Device doesn't support VI...
NEW - 01 Oct 2016 - 18:22 by GenaBaklofen
MotionNotify
Motion Notify Google Drive Uploader and Email Notifier with Network Detection Motion Notify Version 1.0 Motion Notify 1.0 is a major release which is a signifi...
r31 - 24 Sep 2016 - 18:49 by AndrewDean
BugReport2016x09x11x140809
BUG: I recompiled the latest ffmpeg for raspberry pi 3. (see below info) trying to recompile motion with suggested commands (autoreconf fiv; ./configure; make) ...
NEW - 11 Sep 2016 - 14:57 by MarcoBernardi
MotionGuideGettingItRunning
Motion Guide Getting It Running This topic consists of the following subtopics: RunningMotionConfigFiles, CommandLineOptions, ConfigFileOptions, SignalsKill, Er...
CommandLineOptions
Command Line Options In Motion 3.2.1 and forward most command line options have been removed and replaced them by an option to specify location to motion.conf ...
RunningMotionConfigFiles
Running Motion Important Definitions Motion is invoked from the command line. It has no GUI. Everything is controlled from config files. From version 3.2 the com...
SupportQuestion2016x09x02x163613
Question Was wondering if there is or some one could compile a specific Help file for webcam or ip based video. So many cams are now ip based and use various stre...
NEW - 02 Sep 2016 - 16:54 by DavidHorner
SupportQuestion2016x08x21x151007
Question I installed Motion Motioneye from the terminal with apt get .... How can i update to the latest release of both programs WITHOUT losing my settings? ap...
NEW - 21 Aug 2016 - 15:14 by WolframFischer
BugReport2016x08x20x112444
solved! BUG: I have 4 IP Cams running (thread 1.conf, thread 2.conf ...) and i added 2 lines to each of it: mask_file /home/motion_masken/vorne.pgm smart_mask_sp...
r3 - 21 Aug 2016 - 15:09 by WolframFischer
MotionGuideBasicFeatures
Motion Guide Basic Features NOTE THAT THIS GUIDE IS CURRENTLY BROKEN BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR REWRITE FOR MOTION 4.0 This topic consists of the ...
InstallOverview
How do I install Motion? Motion is mainly distributed as source files that you must compile yourself. There is also an RPM made on Fedora Core 3. And Debian packa...
PrepareInstall
Preparation For Install Note: If you're using SuSE 9.2, you might want to ADDITIONALLY have a look at Compiling on SuSE 9.2. As mentioned on that page as well, yo...
MotionOverview
Motion Overview What is Motion? Motion is a program that monitors the video signal from one or more cameras and is able to detect if a significant part of the pi...
KnownProblems
Known Problems See also the Frequently Asked Questions and Bug Reports for known open bugs. If you use use a Logitech Quickcam Orbit or Sphere using the dri...
ConfigOptionMaskFile
Full path of the PGM (portable gray map) mask file (binary format). If you have one or more areas of the camera image in which you do NOT want motion detected (e....
r9 - 10 Aug 2016 - 18:51 by ChrisAAA
MiscellaneousInformation
Miscellaneous Information An index of topics related to Motion that does not fit in any other bucket. Site Maintenance Topics For Developers * ConfigFileOpti...
ConfigFileOptionsBulk
Config File Options Bulk Editor To create a new option go to CreateNewOption To remove it change the group to Obsolete " else="Edit and lock the topics"}% Opt...
CreateNewOption
Create New Option This form creates a new Foswiki topic for a new motion.conf option based on the ConfigOptionTemplate. This is used by administrators to create n...
ConfigOptionTemplate
%NOP{ * Note: Do not edit this topic. Go to relevant ConfigFileOptions topic * Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.AdminGroup }%
MotionTechnology
Technology Detecting motion Motion detects motion by comparing the intensity of pixels in a fresh grabbed image with a reference image. Color information is not ...
Group
Config Groups Do not remove or rename the groups. All config options that exist will be without a value when they are edited if the current value is not there. In...
MotionPatches
Patches for Motion Note this is a historic archive. The development has moved to Github so that is now the proper way to develop patches Patches Planned Patch ...
ConfigOptionBrightness
Value 0 means that Motion does not set the brightness value but leaves it unchanged. If this setting is used in conjunction with the auto_brightness feature, then...
ConfigOptionEventGap
Recommended value is 60 seconds (Default). The value 0 is allowed (but not recommended) and disables events causing all Motion to be written to one single movie f...
ConfigOptionLogType
This enables users and developers to isolate logging information to a specific area of interest. The log types are Short Name COR Core STR ...
ConfigOptionTrackStepsize
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
ConfigOptionWebcontrolHtmlOutput
The recommended value for most is "on" which means that you can navigate and control Motion with a normal browser. By setting this option to "off" the replies are...
ConfigOptionOnEventStart
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the ACL and if it is a script type program s...
ConfigOptionStreamMaxrate
Don't set 'stream_maxrate' too high unless you only use it on the localhost or on an internal LAN.
ConfigOptionTextChanges
By setting this option to 'on' the number of pixels that changed compared to the reference frame is displayed in the upper right corner of the pictures. This is g...
ConfigOptionTrackMotory
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
ConfigOptionTrackStepAngleX
Requires a tracking camera type pwc
ConfigOptionAutoBrightness
Motion will try to adjust the brightness of the video device if the images captured are too dark or too light. This option will be most useful for video devices l...
ConfigOptionExifText
You can use conversion specifiers in this option.
ConfigOptionNoiseLevel
This is different from the threshold parameter. This is changes at pixel level. The purpose is to eliminate the changes generated by electric noise in the camera....
ConfigOptionTextEvent
The idea is that %C can be used filenames and text_left/right for creating a unique identifier for each event. Option text_event defines the value %C which then ...
ConfigOptionThreshold
The 'threshold' option is the most important detection setting. When motion runs it compares the current image frame with the previous and counts the number of ch...
ConfigOptionWebcontrolLocalhost
By setting this to on, the control using http (browser) can only be accessed on the same machine on which Motion is running.
ConfigOptionSnapshotFilename
Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. For Motion 3.0 compatible mode (directories based on date and time) choose: %Y/%m/%d/%H/%M/%S snapshot F...
ConfigOptionTextLeft
text_left is displayed in the lower left corner of the pictures. If the option is not defined no text is displayed at this position. You can place the text in quo...
ConfigOptionTrackMoveWait
The actual delay is depending on the chosen framerate. If you want the camera to move maximum once every 2 seconds and the framerate is 10 then you need to set th...
ConfigOptionTrackPort
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
ConfigOptionHeight
The height of the image in pixels. Motion does not scale so should be set to the actual size of the v4l device. In case of a net camera motion sets the height to ...
ConfigOptionMaxMovieTime
The parameter sets the limit of the time and not the size of the file
ConfigOptionSqlLogSnapshot
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
ConfigOptionSqlQuery
Most common conversion specifiers * %Y = year, %m = month, %d = date * %H = hour, %M = minute, %S = second * %v = event * %q = frame number * %t =...
ConfigOptionStreamLimit
Number can be defined by multiplying actual webcam rate by desired number of seconds. Actual webcam rate is the smallest of the numbers framerate and stream_maxra...
ConfigOptionFfmpegVideoCodec
Supported formats are: * mpeg4 or msmpeg4 gives you files with extension .avi * msmpeg4 is recommended for use with Windows Media Player because it requir...
ConfigOptionLocateMotionMode
The value 'preview' only works when 'output_normal' is set to either 'first' or 'best'.
ConfigOptionPictureType
The recommendation is to always use jpg except if you have a specific need to store high quality pictures without any quality loss. For web cameras you should alw...
ConfigOptionStreamPreviewNewline
Preview images are placed on to the webcontrol home page in thread number order. This parameter allows the user some flexibility in organizing the images on the p...
ConfigOptionStreamQuality
The mjpeg stream consists of a header followed by jpeg frames separated by content length and boundary string. The quality level defines the size of the individua...
ConfigOptionMotionVideoPipe
Using this you can view the results in real time. E.g. by using the program camstream. The difference between this option and the video pipe option is that this o...
ConfigOptionRoundrobinFrames
The Round Robin feature is automatically activated where multiple threads are sharing the same video device. Each thread can then set different input channels or ...
ConfigOptionTargetDir
This is the target directory for all snapshots, images files and movie files. You will normally always want to specify this parameter as an absolute path. Note t...
ConfigOptionTextRight
text_right is displayed in the lower right corner of the pictures. If the option is not defined no text is displayed at this position. You can place the text in q...
ConfigOptionTimelapseFilename
Default value is equivalent to legacy 'oldlayout' option. File extension .mpg is automatically added so do not include this. This option uses conversion specifier...
ConfigOptionWidth
Motion does not scale so should be set to the actual size of the v4l device. In case of a net camera motion sets the height to the height of the first image read....
ConfigOptionFfmpegVariableBitrate
Experiment for the value that gives you the desired compromise between size and quality.
ConfigOptionPreCapture
Motion buffers the number of picture frames defined by 'pre_capture'. When motion is detected the pictures in the buffer are included in the video clip generated ...
ConfigOptionSdlThreadnr
This feature is considered experimental in nature
ConfigOptionStreamLocalhost
By setting this to on, the webcam can only be accessed on the same machine on which Motion is running.
ConfigOptionTextDouble
This option makes the text defined by text_left, text_right and text_changes twice the normal size. This may be useful when using large picture formats such as 64...
ConfigOptionTrackMaxx
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
ConfigOptionFfmpegTimelapseMode
Note that it is important that you use the conversion specifiers in ffmpeg_filename that ensure that the new timelapse file indeed is a new file. If the filename ...
ConfigOptionOnMotionDetected
To disable the feature simply do not include the option in the file or comment it out by placing a "#" or ";" as the first character on the line before the execut...
ConfigOptionOnMovieStart
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the ACL and if it is a script type program s...
ConfigOptionQuality
100 means hardly compressed. A small number means a much smaller file size but also a less nice quality image to look at. 50 is a good compromise for most.
ConfigOptionSqlLogPicture
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
ConfigOptionEmulateMotion
This feature is not meant to be the normal mode of operation. Especially not if you have any of the picture or movie features enabled since it will keep on saving...
ConfigOptionFfmpegOutputMovies
Generates a new film at the beginning of each new event and appends to the film for each motion detected within the same event. The current event ends when the ti...
ConfigOptionOnMovieEnd
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the ACL and if it is a script type program s...
ConfigOptionTrackAuto
Requires a tracking camera type supported by Motion.
ConfigOptionVideodevice
This is the video4linux device name. Ignore this for net cameras.
ConfigOptionLightswitch
Experiment to see what works best for your application. Note: From version 3.1.17 (snap release 2 and on) this option has changed from a boolean (on or off) to a ...
ConfigOptionMinimumFrameTime
This option is used when you want to capture images at a rate lower than 2 per second. When this is enabled the framerate option is used only to set the pace the ...
ConfigOptionPowerLineFrequency
These are the valid values Value Description 1 Do not modify device setting 0 Power line frequency Disabled 1 50 Hz 2 60 Hz 3 A...
ConfigOptionRoundrobinSkip
The Round Robin feature is automatically activated where multiple threads are sharing the same video device. Each thread can then set different input channels or ...
ConfigOptionSwitchfilter
This is a round robin related feature used when you have a capture card with multiple inputs (controlled by the 'input' option) on the same videodevice.
ConfigOptionNorm
This value is only used for capture cards using the BTTV driver.
ConfigOptionProcessIdFile
When Motion is started and this option is defined, Motion creates a file containing the process ID if the main Motion thread. This can be used by scripts to ident...
ConfigOptionSqlLogMovie
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
ConfigOptionVideoPipe
Using this you can view the results in real time. E.g. by using the program camstream. Disable this option by not having it in the config file (or comment it out ...
ConfigOptionDatabaseType
Motion can be compiled with MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite3 database support. When enabled Motion can be configured to add a record to a table in the database as spe...
ConfigOptionFramerate
The faster you fetch pictures from the camera the more CPU load you get and the more pictures get included when Motion is detected. Motion will stop storing pictu...
ConfigOptionFrequency
This option is only relevant if you have a TV tuner card where you can select the tuner frequency. Your tuner card must support this feature.
ConfigOptionStreamAuthMethod
The parameters have the following meaning. * 0 = disabled * 1 = Basic authentication * 2 = MD5 digest (the safer authentication) Note that if you are ena...
ConfigOptionThresholdTune
This feature makes Motion continuously adjust the threshold for declaring motion. The threshold setting is ignored when activating this feature. It may give diffe...
ConfigOptionTrackIomojoId
Only used for iomojo camera.
ConfigOptionNetcamProxy
Use this if you need to connect to a network camera through a proxy server. Example of syntax: "http://myproxy.mydomain.com:1024 If the proxy port number is 80 y...
ConfigOptionOutputDebugPictures
Motion images shows the motion content of the pictures. This is good for tuning and testing but probably not very interesting for the general public. Default is n...
ConfigOptionOutputPictures
If you set the value to 'first' Motion saves only the first motion detected picture per event. If you set it to "best" Motion saves the picture with most changed ...
ConfigOptionTrackMaxy
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
ConfigOptionDespeckle
A way of tuning (by removing or enhancing) noise in the motion image. Options for the despeckle feature are any of 'e', 'E', 'd' or 'D'. This can be combined by a...
ConfigOptionNetcamUrl
Motion can connect to a network camera through a normal TCP socket. All you need to give it is the URL. The URL given must return either one single jpeg picture o...
ConfigOptionPictureFilename
This option uses conversion specifiers which are codes that start by % and then a letter. The conversion specifiers used has the same function as for the C functi...
ConfigOptionPostCapture
The purpose of this is mainly to create smooth video clips each time motion is detected. Use it to you personal taste (and disk space).. This option is the prefer...
ConfigOptionSmartMaskSpeed
Smartmask is a dynamic, self learning mask. Smartmask will disable sensitivity in areas with frequent motion (like trees in the wind). Sensitivity is turned on ag...
ConfigOptionHue
Normally only relevant for NTSC cameras.
ConfigOptionIpv6Enabled
This sets the TCP/IP port number to be used for control of motion using http (browser). Port numbers below 1024 normally requires that you have root privileges. P...
ConfigOptionMinimumMotionFrames
Note that the picture frames are buffered by Motion and once motion is detected also the first frames containing motion are saved so you will not miss anything. T...
ConfigOptionMovieFilename
File extension .mpg or .avi is automatically added so do not include this. This option uses conversion specifiers which are codes that start by % and then a lette...
ConfigOptionLocateMotionStyle
* Set to 'box' will draw the traditional box. * Set to 'redbox' will draw a red box. * Set to 'cross' will draw a little cross to mark center. * Set to '...
ConfigOptionLogLevel
You can use this parameter to set how much information you want from the logging. You will typically use a high value when you are trouble shooting a problem. The...
ConfigOptionStreamMotion
Use this option to save bandwidth when there is not anything important to see from the camera anyway.
ConfigOptionTrackType
Motion has special tracking options which use either a serial stepper motor controller, an iomojo smile cam or a Philips WebCam driver compatible pan/tilt camera ...
ConfigOptionInput
This parameter is really used only with video capture cards that has more than one input. However if you set the input number to e.g. 1 for a USB camera motion wr...
ConfigOptionNetcamKeepalive
* off: The historical implementation using HTTP/1.0, closing the socket after each http request. * on: Use HTTP/1.1 requests that support keep alive as default...
ConfigOptionNoiseTune
This feature makes Motion continuously adjust the noise threshold for distinguishing between noise and motion. The 'noise_level' setting is ignored when activatin...
ConfigOptionStreamPort
Note that each camera thread must have its own unique port number and it must also be different from the webcontrol_port number. A good value to select is 8081 fo...
ConfigOptionThread
This is used when you have more than one camera/device. The single camera can get all its options from the default motion.conf file. If you have two or more camer...
ConfigOptionTrackMotorx
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
ConfigOptionTunerdevice
Make sure to remove or comment out this option when running Motion under Linux.
ConfigOptionAreaDetect
Areas are numbered like that: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 One or more areas can be specified with this option. Example: You want to mon...
ConfigOptionDaemon
Daemon mode is what you typically will use once you are done experimenting and have motion run permanently in the background on a server. Wonder about the word an...
ConfigOptionOnEventEnd
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the ACL and if it is a script type program s...
ConfigOptionOnPictureSave
Full path name of the program/script. This can be any type of program or script. Remember to set the execution bit in the file access control list (chmod) and if ...
ConfigOptionTrackStepAngleY
Requires a tracking camera type pwc
ConfigOptionWebcontrolAuthentication
By setting this to on, the control using http (browser) can only be accessed using login and password ( following the Basic Authentication defined in HTTP RFC )
ConfigOptionFfmpegTimelapse
This feature uses ffmpegs libavcodec to encode a timelapse movie saving a picture frame at the interval in seconds set by this parameter. Setting this option to 0...
ConfigOptionQuiet
Only works in non daemon mode.
ConfigOptionRotate
The rotation feature is used when the camera is hanging upside down (180 degrees) or if you choose a picture format in portrait instead of the normal landscape (9...
ConfigOptionSnapshotInterval
The snapshots are stored in the target directory the directory/filename specified by the snapshot_filename option. This is the traditional web camera feature wh...
ConfigOptionTrackSpeed
Only used for stepper motor tracking.
ConfigOptionWebcontrolPort
This sets the TCP/IP port number to be used for control of motion using http (browser). Port numbers below 1024 normally requires that you have root privileges. P...
ConfigOptionFfmpegBps
To use this feature you need to install the FFmpeg Streaming Multimedia System. Experiment to get the desired quality. The better quality the bigger files. This o...
ConfigOptionFfmpegOutputDebugMovies
Works like ffmpeg_output_movies but outputs motion pixel type pictures instead. This feature generates the special motion type movie where you only see the pixels...
ConfigOptionSetupMode
When this option is turned on, Motion starts in setup mode so that the parameters can be set more easily. You can run setup mode in either console mode or daemon ...
ConfigOptionSqlLogTimelapse
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
ConfigOptionV4L2Palette
Supported values are Value Name Short 0 V4L2_PIX_FMT_SN9C10X S910 1 V4L2_PIX_FMT_SBGGR16 BYR2 2 V4L2_PIX_FMT_SBGGR8 BA81 ...
ConfigOptionMaxMpegTime
The parameter sets the limit of the time and not the size of the file
ConfigOptionForm
Form Topic for motion.conf options Name:* *Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: Option text 50 Option Name always lower case and with under...
ConfigOptionWebcamQuality
The mjpeg stream consists of a header followed by jpeg frames separated by content length and boundary string. The quality level defines the size of the individua...
ConfigOptionWebcamMotion
Use this option to save bandwidth when there is not anything important to see from the camera anyway. Note that this feature was greatly improved from Motion vers...
ConfigOptionWebcamMaxrate
Don't set 'webcam_maxrate' too high unless you only use it on the localhost or on an internal LAN.
ConfigOptionWebcamLocalhost
By setting this to on, the webcam can only be accessed on the same machine on which Motion is running.
ConfigOptionWebcamLimit
Number can be defined by multiplying actual webcam rate by desired number of seconds. Actual webcam rate is the smallest of the numbers framerate and webcam_maxra...
ConfigOptionWebcamPort
Note that each camera thread must have its own unique port number and it must also be different from the control_port number. A good value to select is 8081 for c...
ConfigOptionSqlLogMpeg
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
ConfigOptionSqlLogImage
Configuration option common to MySQL and PostgreSQL. Motion must be built with MySQL or PostgreSQL support to use this feature.
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